Name: Crs Report for Congress: The United Arab Emirates (Uae): Issues for U.S. Policy: March 10, 2011 - Rs21852
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Author: Katzman, Kenneth ; Congressional Research Service the Libr
ISBN: 9781287861140

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Crs Report for Congress: The United Arab Emirates (Uae): Issues for U.S. Policy: March 10, 2011 - Rs21852

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Physical Book

Author

Congressional Research Service the Libr

Kenneth Katzman

Publisher

Bibliogov

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.6 x 18.9 x 0.1 cm

Weight

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9781287861140

Synopsis "Crs Report for Congress: The United Arab Emirates (Uae): Issues for U.S. Policy: March 10, 2011 - Rs21852"

The UAE's relatively open borders, economy, and society have won praise from advocates of expanded freedoms in the Middle East while producing financial excesses, social ills such as prostitution and human trafficking, and relatively lax controls on sensitive technologies acquired from the West. The UAE government is authoritarian, although it allows substantial informal citizen participation and consensus-building. The openness of its society and its economic wealth have allowed the UAE to largely avoid the popular unrest in the Middle East thus far. What could cause full change that is the perception that members of the elite (the ruling families of the seven emirates and clans allied with them) routinely obtain favored treatment in court cases, obtain access to lucrative business opportunities, and exert preponderant influence on national decisions. Until now, political reform has been limited and halting. After several years of resisting electoral processes similar to those instituted by other Gulf states, and despite an absence of popular pressure for elections, the UAE undertook its first electoral process for its consultative "Federal National Council" in December 2006. The process was criticized as far from instituting Western- style democratic processes, because the electorate was limited to about 1% of the citizenry, ...

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